Describe your school's strengths and needs based on a school improvement document, such as the school's SALT visit report, its SALT survey data, or its school improvement plan.
The major area of concern for Chariho HS is the availability of space to function. In the SALT report, funding has been approved for construction of a new wing. The library will also be moved and the learning and administrative spaces will be more spacious and functional. It is very apparent to me that Chariho needs additional space. For example, when attempting to leave the classroom after the bell rings to get a drink of water across the school, by the time I re-enter the classroom the second bell will have already rung. This is because the school is so incredibly crowded, and walking to the next class involved walking at a very slow pace behind a wall of students entering and exitinbg classrooms and checking their lockers for materials. The proposed limit for the school is 550 students, while the current size is over 1400. They need more space.
ANother area of improvement in the SALT report is in cooperative learning throughout the department. In department meetings, teachers are infomed to provide individualized tests designed by teachers to be distributed to the head of the dept. The head of the cepot then determines the questions that will be given to every student in the biology, gen science classrooms. This process is done for a quiz and a unit test every quarter, as well as a formal lab. This is to ensure that students are recieving similar information that can be useful when taking the NECAPs, and also to ensure that each classroom can be held accountable for the information on the quiz, test, lab material. It is a form of accountability as well as practice for standardized testing.
Describe your school's strengths and needs based on a school improvement document, such as the school's SALT visit report, its SALT survey data, or its school improvement plan.
The major area of concern for Chariho HS is the availability of space to function. In the SALT report, funding has been approved for construction of a new wing. The library will also be moved and the learning and administrative spaces will be more spacious and functional. It is very apparent to me that Chariho needs additional space. For example, when attempting to leave the classroom after the bell rings to get a drink of water across the school, by the time I re-enter the classroom the second bell will have already rung. This is because the school is so incredibly crowded, and walking to the next class involved walking at a very slow pace behind a wall of students entering and exitinbg classrooms and checking their lockers for materials. The proposed limit for the school is 550 students, while the current size is over 1400. They need more space.
ANother area of improvement in the SALT report is in cooperative learning throughout the department. In department meetings, teachers are infomed to provide individualized tests designed by teachers to be distributed to the head of the dept. The head of the cepot then determines the questions that will be given to every student in the biology, gen science classrooms. This process is done for a quiz and a unit test every quarter, as well as a formal lab. This is to ensure that students are recieving similar information that can be useful when taking the NECAPs, and also to ensure that each classroom can be held accountable for the information on the quiz, test, lab material. It is a form of accountability as well as practice for standardized testing.